Nope. Kai wanted the UFC star, and who wouldn’t? It is not often that a young lady gets the chance to be carried to safety by a mixed martial arts champion.

The irony was that Tate was the one who ultimately wound up being inspired by the trip back to safety.

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“Kai and I learned a lot about each other on the roughly two-mile descent, and It’s fair to say she inspired me,” Tate later remarked, pointing to the way the young lady neither cried nor whined, but rather handled herself like a true champ.

And her injury wasn’t a minor one, either; she had broken her arm.

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“She was playing with her sister and tripped over a rock and landed on her arm,” Kai’s mother explained.

Ouch. An injury would have left most children crying like a baby, but not Kai. She was made of sterner stuff.

As for Ellis, she reportedly thanked Tate in a Facebook post, calling her a “true lifesaver,” as she could not have made the trip by herself.